I Long To Be The River Quotes

“And perhaps, I'm a Tuesday night and you're a Wednesday morning the way we'll never even notice how we blend into each other.”
― Danabelle Gutierrez, I Long To Be The River

“When he asks you why
you chose alone all these years.
Tell him that it’s because
you love with all claws and bared teeth.
Apologize for the scratches
that you will leave on his skin;
ask forgiveness for the bite marks.
Tell him you never ever mean to love so hard, but you do.”
― Danabelle Gutierrez, I Long To Be The River

“He loved me like thick molasses on a summer's day. Pure, sweet, sticky, warm, dark.”
― Danabelle Gutierrez, I Long To Be The River

“Cultivate the distance. Nurture the silence. Let it grow until your fragile heart is as far and inaccessible as his marbled emotions. Don't talk. Don't move. Sit still. If he shows up, lie. Believe your own excuses.

And if he tries to charm his way back in, punch him in the face.”
― Danabelle Gutierrez, I Long To Be The River

“there are only so many things
that you can fix with your hands.

...What they don't realize is I am not a thing to fix.”
― Danabelle Gutierrez, I Long To Be The River

“But when I think of us,
in the quiet when I'm on my own,
I think of Beauty and the Beast.

I, being the beast, and you being the last beautiful thing in this city.”
― Danabelle Gutierrez, I Long To Be The River

“Decades from now, my grandchild is going to be a poet... And she's going to write about how she's a living testament to how her grandmother made love to hurricane and calmed the storm.”
― Danabelle Gutierrez, I Long To Be The River